People just need a little direction and some resources, and that's DedSec. When the world looks like this, when private militaries are taking control of the streets, scientists are kidnapping and torturing people under the guise of "progress," and gangs are preying on the most vulnerable communities, it's everyone's fight. The idea behind Watch Dogs: Legion is that this isn't just one person's fight. From these heinous acts of exploitative violence to the abject anxiety of the militaristic surveillance state the powerful have placed this city under, Legion has a lot of hooks it uses to pull you and every character you encounter into the action. The engrossing plot pulls a lot of weight in the unification here, beginning with a straightforward mystery but unraveling into some deeply surprising and disturbing developments, including the harvesting of human organs and turning peoples’ brains into AI. No matter who I recruited and played as, they all were affected by the injustice of Legion's London in one way or another, unifying everyone you can find on the streets to the resistance.
Instead of feeling like I lacked a character to connect with, I found myself connecting with the group's common core of antifascism and anti-exploitation. Knowing that I’d be playing as a handful of different characters, recruiting new people into DedSec to regrow the hacker collective and hopping between them throughout the game, I was concerned it would make me feel disconnected from the story without a single character to pin my emotions on. Instead, there is a collective of everyday dissidents working together under the name DedSec to take down the corrupt and exploitative powers-that-be via hacking.Īt first, that idea felt a little grating. In Watch Dogs: Legion, there is no one protagonist, no single pair of shoulders upon which the fate of London rests.
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